One who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.

To extort small treats on Halloween by implied threat of property damage or practical joke.

(anthropology) A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a transition in a person’s life. Baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals are among the best known examples.

(transitive, idiomatic) to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.

(Mormonism) A sacred text of the Latter-Day Saints movement, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.

(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer. / (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew. / (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider. / To expel, reject, or renounce.

A law which has received assent (royal, presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of a parliament.

(idiomatic) Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.

(American spelling, idiomatic) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.

(idiomatic) recently; lately; a few days ago.